Cuba Authentic Dark
Pear and lemon create a juicy, slightly tart opening that quickly gets pricked by pink pepper’s metallic sparkle, giving the fruit an edgy, carbonated fizz.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Cedar
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readPear and lemon create a juicy, slightly tart opening that quickly gets pricked by pink pepper’s metallic sparkle, giving the fruit an edgy, carbonated fizz. A split heart of cedar and galbanum inserts cool, resinous greenness that dries the fruit sugars and tilts the scent toward crisp woodland shadows. As the top fizz subsides, guaiac wood and olibanum smoulder quietly, their incense-smoke filtering through cashmeran’s soft, nutty musk to form a clean, modern wood accord with lingering peppery lift. Wear tests show a steady woody skin-scent halo that stays polite for about six hours, projecting an arm’s-length whisper before folding into laundered-musk cotton. Office-friendly year-round, yet the cool green woods read best in spring and early fall when mild air lets the pepper shimmer.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
